An estimated 20,000 metric tons of trash from the Guatemala City landfill flows down the Motagua River into the Caribbean each year, where it washes ashore on Honduran beaches and forces residents to form cleanup efforts.
“I challenge you all to take time out of your routine for actionable items such as mutual aid efforts that help mitigate the impacts of living in an environmental justice area,“ David said.
In 2019, a tipster from North Dakota alerted Oregon regulators that the Oregon landfill might have been accepting radioactive waste from a company disposing of solid waste from a project in the Bakken Formation — one of North America’s largest contiguous oil and natural gas deposits.
